Digital Manufacturing Program Manager / Release Train Engineer (RTE) - Remote

Role summary

Key responsibilities

• Manage the integrated plan, release roadmap, delivery cadence, resources, milestones, dependencies, risks, actions, and decisions.
• Facilitate agile execution, including program increment planning, cross-team ceremonies, retrospectives, and reporting.
• Coordinate Manufacturing, Quality, Training, Engineering, ZTD, data scientists, and site operations.
• Oversee the MES of the Future implementation at Kalamazoo with MES program leadership and coordinate Level 2 connectivity through the Manufacturing Data Fabric.
• Align Golden Batch and Connected Worker/OEE initiatives with business outcomes, governance, operational priorities, and readiness.
• Resolve cross-functional blockers, dependencies, resourcing needs, and delivery risks.
• Support PAT opportunity evaluation and prioritization, vendor engagement, stakeholder alignment, business-value and project-cost decisions, and roadmap integration.
• Report workstream outcomes, decisions, risks, milestones, dependencies, and next steps to executives and the PMO.
• Adapt agile practices to regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Required experience and capabilities

• Significant experience leading complex transformation programs or agile release trains in pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotechnology, or similarly regulated life sciences.
• Practical experience as an RTE, Program Manager, Agile Program Lead, or equivalent.
• Delivery experience with manufacturing digitalization, MES, electronic batch records, manufacturing execution, shop-floor systems, OEE, connected worker, or industrial data platforms.
• Familiarity with GMP, data integrity, validation/CSV, quality-system implications, and site implementation constraints.
• Ability to lead senior stakeholders and resolve cross-functional delivery issues in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication, facilitation, planning, and executive-reporting skills.

Preferred experience

• Direct experience with OEE, Golden Batch, process performance analytics, digital batch record transformation, PAT, or advanced manufacturing.
• Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing rollouts or global operating-model implementation.
• SAFe or comparable agile-at-scale certification and experience.

Compensation

• Compensation is CAD 90,000 to CAD 120,000 plus COLA; the role is also eligible for a discretionary annual incentive based on performance and applicable plan terms.

Workplace

• The source title identifies the role as remote.